"In fact, it is not necessary to persuade the people in the third room to take the initiative to take the poison." Wen Yiheng shook his head and did not smile.

Su Jiudong looked at Wen Yiheng suspiciously, and said, "How can this be explained?" ”

"If they poison the food in Sanfang, or directly sell them rancid ingredients...... Wen Yiheng said his guess, "it can also achieve the effect of infecting Sanfang." ”

"Are they really going to be so ruthless? That's three lives. Su Jiudong was still very suspicious, "Moreover, there are so many people in the Su family, why do they only pick people from the third room?" ”

Wen Yiheng took the five teacups on the square table, divided them into two sides, pointed to the part of the three cups, and said, "Most of the Su family live in rural villages. ”

Wen Yiheng pointed to the two teacups that were made in a pile again, and said: "At present, Su Chunshan, who has only a three-room family of three and a big house, has settled in the county seat. ”

"There is still a distance from the village to Qishan County, it takes half a day to walk, and it takes more than an hour to drive, if you change it, you will poison the Su family......"

Wen Yiheng carefully analyzed it and told Su Jiudong: "Would you choose to spend more than an hour driving a carriage to the village to poison you; Or will they choose to directly poison the Su family who live in the county according to the principle of proximity? ”

Su Jiudong pondered the conjecture Wen Yiheng said, but Wen Yiheng couldn't wait to tell her the possibility.

"There aren't many horse-drawn carriages in the village, so the noise is too noisy when driving and it attracts the attention of other villagers. In this way, not only will there be many more witnesses, not to mention how much fanfare will be made when driving to the Su family's ancestral house. ”

Su Jiudong nodded approvingly: "That's right, when poisoning in the county town, you can also take advantage of the convenience to start at night, and then sneak back unconsciously to prevent others from finding out." ”

"That's right." Wen Yiheng leaned back in his chair for a long time, as if he had determined the possibility of his conjecture.

“…… So if those people really want to poison, of course, it is more convenient to choose people who live in the county town. ”

Su Jiudong fell into her own world and pondered, and Wen Yiheng didn't bother her anymore.

Su Jiudong thought that everything that the two were discussing now was still at the stage of speculation, and there was no direct evidence to prove that it must be several other restaurants in the county town that had joined forces to frame the Yongyuan Medicinal Restaurant.

It's still not enough to rely on the newly launched format of a few restaurants in the town and your own suspicions.

Seeing the situation, Shopkeeper Liu took Su Jiudong into the backyard and whispered: "Owner, since we don't have any evidence yet, instead of sitting and waiting for guests, why don't we send someone to the third room to explore again?" Maybe something new can be discovered. ”

Su Jiudong shook his head helplessly, stroked his face with both hands, and said lightly: "I can't find anything, we went there on the night of the onset of the third room, and they did have dysentery, which is not deceiving." ”

"It's not necessarily ......" Wen Yiheng seemed to remember something, sat up straight from the chair, his eyes lit up, and walked straight to Su Jiudong.

"We only went to their room that day to check their pulse, and we didn't go to their kitchen to check it, and if it was true that they had poisoned themselves or were poisoned, the food and water sources would have been able to detect something."

"Okay, let's visit the third room tonight." Su Jiudong made a decision neatly.

Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng are both vigorous and resolute people, and they will move when they say.

As soon as the time arrived, just after the first watch, Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng, who were waiting in the medicinal restaurant, changed into "professional" night clothes and set off for the three-room home.

The ancients had no entertainment at night, and there was a curfew at night, except for the errand and the husband, no one else was allowed to move around at will, so that most nights were busy and fell asleep after nothing happened.

As a result, there were not many people on the street, and the occasional sound of a husband on the side of the street was heard.

Quietly touching the door of the third room, facing the door, Su Jiudong suddenly became a little overwhelmed.

In the past, she used to visit and knock generously during the day, and she had never tried the excitement of peeping into other people's houses at night, and for a while a little timidity rose in her heart to be a thief.

Wen Yiheng, who was next to him, waved his hand at the street behind him, and saw that there seemed to be many figures jumping on the roof in the dark, and they hurriedly drilled into the three-room house, and the night clothes of the group were hidden in the night.

Su Jiudong thought that he and Wen Yiheng were acting secretly, but he didn't expect Wen Yiheng to send his own secret guard for her.

Watching the dark guard enter the three-room house with agility, Su Jiudong couldn't help but secretly sigh at the secret guard's skill and strength.

Wen Yiheng took Su Jiudong to the side of the dark alley to hide, and stood waiting for news from the secret guards.

"Do they know they're going to check in the kitchen and the well tank?" Su Jiudong couldn't help tiptoeing to Wen Yiheng's ear and asked in a worried whisper. 100 Literature

"Don't worry, they are more professional than us in searching and identifying poisons and residual traces." Wen Yiheng clenched Su Jiudong's hand, deliberately pulled her closer to him, and replied with a low magnetic response.

About three quarters of an hour later, a belated secret guard dodged into the alley, presented a thing wrapped in yellow oil paper to Wen Yiheng, whispered a few words to Wen Yiheng, and then led the other secret guards behind him to retreat respectfully.

Wen Yiheng ostentatiously held up the oil paper bag in front of Su Jiudong's eyes, and said ostentatiously: "Look, the thing is in hand." ”

"Look what's it!" Su Jiudong stared at the oil paper bag with a slight excitement, she couldn't wait to open it and take a look after smelling the fishy smell.

"Don't worry, go back and see." Wen Yiheng received the oil paper bag behind him and pulled Su Jiudong to go home.

"What?" Su Jiudong was confused: "Why don't you watch it now?" With ready-made evidence, isn't it just right to confront them directly in the third room? ”

"The evidence is there, but if you rashly find a confrontation with Sanfang, and then they ask where you got the evidence from, how should you answer?"

"Do you want to tell the truth that we snuck into their house at night and rummaged through it?" Wen Yiheng asked Su Jiudong.

At that time, he not only exposed his secret sneaking into the third room, but also took the initiative to hand over the evidence of "trespassing into the house" to the third room, and the gains outweighed the losses.

"Breaking into a private house at night, what crime do you think you will be sentenced for?"

"What sin? The crime of trespassing? Su Jiudong was stunned for a while, the crime of trespassing in ancient times should not be as serious as the punishment of trespassing in modern houses......

Wen Yiheng stated solemnly in a dark tone: "There is a law in my dynasty, and the thieves and their families are not guilty of killing. Whoever enters a house without a reason in the nights shall be punished with forty lashes, and if the master immediately kills the person, the master shall not be guilty. ”

Su Jiudong opened his mouth, but he didn't expect that in ancient and modern times, the punishment for trespassing on private houses was equally severe.

That is, it is not a crime to kill a person who commits theft or murder in the army, township, town, or other family. He was also sentenced to 40 strokes on the buttocks, back and thighs; Even if he is killed by the master's family, it will be a vain death. ”

"Since we can't use this evidence to confront them in the third room, then isn't our trip tonight in vain?" Su Jiudong was depressed, and the original hope of perfection suddenly sank.

"It won't be in vain, won't we be able to confirm the news that the third room of the Su family was poisoned tonight?" Wen Yiheng soothed Su Jiudong's frowning brows.

"Although it is not yet certain whether they were self-poisoned or poisoned by others, it is at least certain that their onset was not caused by the food in our medicinal restaurant, which is enough."

The two returned home with the oil paper bag sent by the secret guard, and Su Jiudong snatched the oil paper bag that Wen Yiheng had been holding in his hand, and couldn't help but open it to see what kind of poison was inside.

"W-isn't this just an ordinary fish?" Su Jiudong pointed to the flattened big yellow croaker in the oil paper bag, disappointed.

As a traditional fish of the four seas, the large yellow croaker has good nutrition and good taste, so it is a favorite aquatic product that ordinary people often buy and eat.

I thought it would be some kind of highly toxic or poisonous flowers, but I didn't expect it to be a common aquatic product.

"This is not an ordinary fish, but a fish that has spoiled." Wen Yiheng took a chopstick and flicked the obviously spoiled yellow croaker in the oiled paper bag.

"This is the secret guard rummaged through the small basket next to the garbage in the third kitchen, and there are several other fish of the same kind." Wen Yiheng poked the gills of the fish with chopsticks, and a stronger fishy smell came to his face, and Su Jiudong immediately subconsciously covered his nose.

Although the whole fish has been stripped of its squid, gills, internal organs and mucus, the body of the fish is stiff, some of the scales have fallen off, the eyeballs are sunken, the gills have turned dark brown, and there is a distinct fishy odor.

"Ordinary people know that fish is more likely to spoil and spoil than meat, and Wang Lihe, who is the wife of the housekeeper, must also know this common sense." Su Jiudong was very puzzled: "If you want to buy fish, you should also buy fresh fish, and you won't deliberately buy rotten fish to eat, right?" ”

Song Ren has "Proverbs of Food Hygiene": "Stinky fish and rotten shrimp will cause illness." "Rotten fish can easily cause all kinds of diseases when eaten.

Large yellow croaker belongs to the fishy aquatic products, salty, cold and fishy, easy to induce allergic diseases, but also easy to cause sores, ulcers and other skin diseases. If you really eat spoiled yellow croaker, it will still cause illness.

"Wang Lily must have bought fresh fish when she bought it, but she couldn't stand that someone would poison the fresh fish." Wen Yiheng took the chopsticks into the belly of the fish and pounded it, and then took another chopstick and nailed it to the edge.

"Go and prepare a bowl of clean salt water." Wen Yiheng instructed Su Jiudong, and Su Jiudong quickly ran to the kitchen and brought a small bowl of clean and clear salt water.

After Wen Yiheng tinkered for a while, he took out the chopsticks, only to see that the chopsticks were stained with greasy yellowish objects that I don't know whether it was oil, water or mucus.

Then Wen Yiheng inserted the chopsticks stained with mucus into the salt water and stirred, and after a while, the clear salt water gradually turned into a slightly lighter soy sauce color.

"What's going on?" Su Jiudong looked at the scene in front of him, full of suspicion.